Extinguished Quotes

138 quotes by 126 authors

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a… — Steven Pinker
October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead.… — Anne Bronte
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or… — Anton Chekhov
Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ. Thatâ€™s how we… — Neal A. Maxwell
Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations. — Pablo Neruda
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life.… — Elie Wiesel
I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts.… — Paulo Coelho
The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create… — Ruta Sepetys
Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at… — Ray Bradbury
To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge — Dejan Stojanovic
I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing… — Henry Miller
There came to him an image of manâ€™s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all manâ€™s life was like a tiny… — Thomas Wolfe
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil,… — Marion LeRoy Burton
Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's history when that… — Robert Green Ingersoll
He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself… — Baruch Spinoza
Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make… — Baron d'Holbach
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being… — Ovid

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